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Vatican City, Jan 11, 2017 / 04:14 pm (CNA).- Ken Hackett is preparing to wrap up his term as U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See as Donald Trump's presidential inauguration looms next week.And while he says no one can predict what Trump will do in office, he expects the fiery campaign talk to simmer down once the “reality of governing” sets in.Hackett, a former head of Catholic Relief Services who was pulled from retirement in 2013 to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, sat down for an interview in Rome with CNA Jan. 10.Running a nation, he reflected, “calls you to be your best, to weigh decisions, to listen to advice, to play the role on the world’s stage that the United States has played and is capable of playing.” He voiced optimism that “good will prevail” and Trump will “take the best advice that's offered to him.”One of the issues Trump was most outspoken on during the campaign, and where some of his most con...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The latest storm to wallop Northern California whipped up a small tornado that downed trees and fences near Sacramento....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Six high-level Volkswagen employees from Germany were indicted in the U.S. on Wednesday in the VW emissions-cheating scandal, while the company itself agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges and pay $4.3 billion - by far the biggest fine ever levied by the government against an automaker....
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- Texas on Wednesday put to death an inmate convicted of killing two men over a drug deal, the first U.S. execution of 2017....
NEW YORK (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday he will continue to profit from his global business empire after he enters the White House this month - a precedent-breaking decision that the director of the Office of Government Ethics swiftly condemned as unpatriotic....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It was a bombshell story, emerging on the eve of Donald Trump's first news conference as president-elect: U.S. intelligence officials had presented Trump with unsubstantiated claims that Russia had amassed compromising personal and financial allegations about him....
NEW YORK (AP) -- In a combative and freewheeling news conference, President-elect Donald Trump said for the first time Wednesday that he accepts Russia was behind the election year hacking of Democrats that roiled the White House race. Looking ahead, he urged Congress to move quickly to replace President Barack Obama's signature health care law and insisted anew that Mexico will pay the cost of a border wall....
(Vatican Radio) A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin has denied allegations that the Kremlin has collected compromising information about U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. The comments came after Moscow already denied any involvement in a cyber hacking and propaganda campaign to influence the recent presidential elections in the United States. Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: "Pulp fiction". That's how Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov describes claims that Russia has compromising personal and financial information about U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. In a statement, Pescklov said the allegations are aimed at harming bi-lateral relations between the U.S. and Russia.Even President Elect Trump reacted. He used social networking service Twitter to rubbish the allegations saying in one messages: "Russia has never tried to use leverage over me. I have nothing to do with Russia – No deals, no loans, no nothing."U.S. intelligence ...
(Vatican Radio) The Greek Navy has sent a transport vessel to the island of Lesbos to take on about 500 migrants whose camp tents have been flattened by heavy snow.Listen to the report by John Carr: Over the past few days parts of Greece have seen some of the heaviest snowfalls in many years, with most of the Aegean islands freezing under temperatures well below zero. Migrant holding camps around the country are particularly affected, as in many cases they consist of little but flimsy canvas tents.Several hundred Afghan migrants on Lesbos last night climbed up to the island’s ruined mediaeval castle and lit fires there to keep warm. Greek television is broadcasting images of sad-faced migrant children shivering between piles of snow. A helicopter carrying a Greek official to Lesbos had to turn back because of strong winds.The weather people say warmer weather will return to Greece this week, but the wider issue of what to do with more than 60,000 migrants t...
Vatican City, Jan 11, 2017 / 01:33 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- On Tuesday, the Vatican unveiled a “new and improved” weekly edition of its newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, which will begin with the Jan. 19 issue, and include updates to both content and the newspaper’s look, according to the director.The changes are intended to merge new with old, keeping the newspaper’s fundamental characteristic, that it’s an “echo of papal teaching,” Director Giovanni Maria Vian told journalists Jan. 10.New voices, including both secular and Catholic writers, will be added to four of the main sections of the paper: Vatican information, international news, religious news, and culture.There will also be new articles written by representatives of different Christian denominations and non-Christian religions, and a new meditation on the Sunday Gospel passage.Some content of the weekly edition will be pulled from the daily editions of that week, which is also a ...
